VS 346 Stuck!

Just watching on BBC news - appears that G-VOGE is stuck in the middle of 09R due to the snow!

Quite amusing seeing the flight crew hanging out the flight deck window waving at the news helicopter!

They zoomed in a minute ago. It's Cosmic Girl.

just heard this in Milan - get off the runway I want to fly in.

FM

They zoomed in a minute ago. It's Cosmic Girl.

No, its Cover Girl.

They zoomed in a minute ago. It's Cosmic Girl.

No, its Cover Girl.

Yes, sorry. They zoomed in a bit further this time

So I guess it's full of passengers trying to get to Miami. So near, yet so far. I really do feel sorry for all onboard.

The captain waving was funny!

Which flight is it operating? Are there passengers stuck on board?

The captain waving was funny!

Which flight is it operating? Are there passengers stuck on board?

VS005. BBC are saying theres passengers on board. Although how they can see BBC news onboard on be able to text in i dont know!

The captain waving was funny!

Which flight is it operating? Are there passengers stuck on board?

VS005. BBC are saying theres passengers on board. Although how they can see BBC news onboard on be able to text in i dont know!

Not to mention doors are shut and all that and no PEDs allowed 8D

more to the point - I thought lhr was closed till 16:00 for snow clearing.

FM

Piccie here...

http://yfrog.com/h4iqndtj

Loving some of the blatantly made up tweets from people "on the plane"

http://twitter.com/#!/snewman2

"@BBC i'm on the virgin atlantic plane on the south runway and we are running out of food and drinks"

You've got through the 9 hours worth of food and drink that the plane would have been loaded with in an hour on the ground? yeahhh...!

we spent two hours on the runway in may and it wasnt snow that caused it ,lmao

Cover Girl brought me home from LAX last week . I thought the airport was closed until 5pm though so what was it doing?
The weather at LHR looks nearly as grim as it is here - we might be having gruel for our Christams lunch as we're well and truly snowed in ! .
DL

i hope everyone can get home , then let it snow , and snow so poor shop workers can have boxing day off

This BBC News journalist is a disgrace, the phone interview with the VS passenger and the VS Comms Director are a joke with phrases like 'terrifying'...

I'm getting a bit fed up with these journos plugging the 'UK has 2 flakes of snow and grinds to a halt whilst everyone else carries on' myth. Large parts of N Europe are struggling, Frankfurt/Munich/Paris/Switzerland have all been badly affected in recent weeks. Rapid falls of heavy snow will cause issues almost everywhere south of the artic circle!

well done to greg from va, spot on mate,

as for point above yep prague closed a few days ago

BBC are reporting that it was the inbound from MIA rather than a departing flight.

Kinda explains some of the comments

David

BBC are reporting that it was the inbound from MIA rather than a departing flight.

Yes it was this mornings inbound flight!! The pax were kept on the plane for 5 hrs, so they may well have been running out of food and drink!
Kinda explains some of the comments

David

Interview with someone on the plane on the BBC here - sounds very complementary about how VS handled things!

[Scrooge]

Ok, so it was an incoming flight.

Anyways, great PR for VS, for once a pax doesn't try to blame everything on the airline.

Agree on good PR for virgin, but the questions from beeb journalist pretty stupid...

I can't listen as I'm on my iPhone

sounds like fun flight a go-around and then landing in heavy snow.

at least the BBC found a happy passenger and not one who moans a lot!

As usual...lots of mis-reporting..The plane wasn't stuck at all on the runway. It was sitting on one of the taxiways while waiting for a parking bay.